I know what you mean. I have pulled off some bonehead trades in my day. My wife heard me talking to the gun shop. She just shook her head and went down town shopping. It only took me ten minutes to regret the deal when I first traded it in but I held off for several months before caving in. Two reasons that he still had it. 1. The seasons were over and folks are not thinking about a new gun for next year. 2. The old 30-06 is suffering a little loss of sales to the new WSM's. He told me when I traded it that he wished it were a different caliber because the 06 doesn't sell as well as it once did. However I know it will do the same job its done for 100 years. I have been checking out the 270 WSM Savage weather warrior with great interest.

My wife loves to hunt but she shoots a 250-3000 and see's no use for any other deer type rifle. She will shoot my 25-06 and 6.5x55 in a pinch. She hates recoil.